Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Sean Flynn plays Timothy Benson, owner of a mine that outlaw Rodrigo Rodriguez (Fernando Sancho) wants for his own.

After Rodriguez has all the workers at the mine massacred, Timothy’s foreman (Poldo Bendandi as Corky) decides it’s time to take matters into his own hands.

So he looks up five old friends, including a knife expert, a boxer and a gunman (Daniel Martin as Slim) who already holds a grudge against Rodriguez. Then he takes them to meet, and toughen up, his boss.

Once Timothy learns to stop being an “abstainer” and fend for himself, the “seven magnificent guns” begin to turn the tables on Rodriguez.

But then the six are captured, leaving Timothy and girlfriend Coralie (Evelyn Stewart) to fend for themselves as Rodriguez and his small army descend on their home.

Sean Flynn as Timothy Benson, explaining his preference for law books over guns in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Ida Galli as Coralie, girlfriend of Timothy Benson in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Review:

A cross between The Magnificent Seven and any one of a number of tenderfoot Westerns in which a dude from the East goes West and needs to be toughened up. In this case, Sean Flynn — son of Errol — plays the dude, pretty convincingly.

The best scenes are the ones in which the abstainer — Timothy Benson’s nickname because he abstains from alcohol — is being trained by the men Corky rounds up.

In one such scene, Timothy can’t hit anything with a six-gun. Then he darts inside, does mathematical equations with both hands at the same time and rushes back outside his home, transformed into the deadliest shot in the West.

Ida Galli — typically billed as Evelyn Stewart — plays the woman in love with Timothy because he’s so different, but who frets once he’s toughened up because she fears his new-found courage will get him into trouble. Oh, she also has to fend off the advances of Rodriguez, who would like to add her to his stable of wives.

It all adds up to a so-so comedy Western.

Fernando Sancho as Rodriguez, delighting in the evil deeds of his men in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Poldo Bendandi as Sgt. Corky, trying desperately to help Benson hold onto his mine in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Directed by:
Romolo Guerrieri

Cast:
Sean Flynn … Timothy Benson
Fernando Sancho … Rodrigo Rodriguez
Ida Galli … Coralie
as Evelyn Stewart
Poldo Bendandi … Corky
Daniel Martin … Slim
Frank Oliveras … Bert
Spartaco Conversi … Brett Colton
as Spean Convery
Rafael Albaicin … Gray Eagle
Tito Garcia … Abel

Also with: William Conroy, Francisco Gabarre, Antonio Almorós, Silvana Bacci, Ivan Bastia, Osvaldo Genazzani, Maruska Rossetti, Anita Todesco

aka:
Sette magnifiche pistole
Seven Magnificent Pistols
Seven Magnificent Pistols for Timothy

Score: Gino Peguri
Song: “Cavalca cowboy” performed by by I Marcellos Ferial

Runtime: 89 min.

Daniel Martin as Slim, a young gun with a score to settle with Rodriguez in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Spartaco Conversi (Spean Convery) as Brett, the sideshow boxer who agrees to help Benson in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Memorable lines:

Timothy to Abel: “I don’t drink because I’m an abstainer.”
Abel: “Is that some sort of plague?”

Sheriff: “Do you have a minute, Rodriquez?”
Rodriquez: “Call me excellency, punk. Or are you too drunk?”

Coralie, as bullets fly from the guns of Rodriguez’s men: “I’m not the least bit afraid to die with you by my side, Timothy.”
Timothy Benson: “Who said anything about dying? We’ve got a lot of fighting to do before we’re through.”

Tito Garcia as Abel and Frank Oliveras as Bert, two of the men Sgt. Corky recruits in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Rafael Albaicin as Gray Eagle, one of the men Sgt. Corky recruits in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Trivia:

Sean Flynn is the son of legendary actor Earl Flynn. After making a few films in Europe, he reportedly became bored with acting and moved to Africa, where he became a game warden and hunter. For his next adventure, he headed to Vietnam as a photographer and journalist. It’s believed he was captured and killed in Cambodia in 1970 at age 30.

Tito Garcia, who plays the role of the hard-drinking Abel in this flick, worked as a bullfighter for six years.

Sean Flynn as Timothy Benson, the former abstainer, visiting the saloon in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Daniel Martin as Slim has trouble approach in the form of three Rodriguez henchmen in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Antonio Almoros as Sheriff Coleman, taking instructions from Rodriguez in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)

Ida Galli as Coralie and Sean Flynn as Timothy Benson, trying to fight off an attack by Rodriguez and his men in Seven Guns for Timothy (1966)